Oboe

Be the Hero

Jennet Ingle / November 12, 2018

I judged a university Concerto Competition recently and heard some great playing. But I was disappointed to hear some contestants […]

Jennet Ingle / October 26, 2018

I haven’t shared anything about my playing work for quite a while. These past two weeks have been overwhelmingly busy,

Jennet Ingle / October 4, 2018

Barlines. We musicians love them and we hate them. Some students get stuck on every one of them, or seem

Jennet Ingle / September 27, 2018

When my students get too MOUTHY with the oboe, I put them in a corner. Really. They tend to play

Jennet Ingle / September 19, 2018

I LOVE practicing West Side Story. I realized today, as I was working through the fugue portion of “Cool” in

Jennet Ingle / September 1, 2018

(Part One HERE) (Similar story HERE) Mercifully, THIS one didn’t happen to me. But my poor student was playing an

I always like to share what I do on this blog. The South Bend Symphony closed its season last night

I was listening to Seth Godin’s podcast on Wabi-Sabi and Quality and Right Effort, and I was moved by it.

I went in for my yearly mammogram last week. As you know, it’s not exactly a painful procedure, but it’s

Jennet Ingle / February 18, 2018

I’ve had five different concerts in a row this past four weeks, and for three of them I was not